“The Impact of Number of Children on Mothers’ Labor Force Participation and Working Hours: A Probit and Linear Regression Analysis”

The main research question is how the number of kids affect mothers’ labor force participation and working hours. The labor force participation is a binary variable, so you will need to use the probit model. Don’t forget to calculate the marginal effects to correctly interpret the effects. Working hours is a continuous variable, so you may use a linear regression. In addition to the number of kids, include more control variables such as mother’s age, mother’s age at the first birth, mother’s race dummies, mother’s education dummies.

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